Check out my list of top songs about tough financial times…

1. 2pac hollers to his sisters on welfare in the popular and timeless “Keep Ya Head Up”.
2. In “Shelter From the Storm”, the voice of Bob Dylan emerges from a lifetime of toil.
3. Dave Matthews laments overworked hands, dues and debts in the unique “Pay For What You Get”.
4. Marvin Gaye couples lyrics about inflation and hopelessness in the classic “Inner City Blues”.
5. Disgusted, invisibly bound, and anything but free is Bob Marley in “Concrete Jungle”.
6. Cold War Kids’ lead singer Nathan Willett empathizes with the argued necessity of robbery during hard economic times in the soothing “Robbers”.
7. Ryan Adams works his hands to bleed because there are mouths to feed in “In My Time of Need”.
8. In his debut album, Bon Iver sings of times when you’re money’s gone and you’re drunk as hell in “Re: Stacks”. Sing it, Bon.
9. A figurehead in the American folk movement, Woody Guthrie wails of unemployment and the hard travels of migrant workers across the U.S. in “Do Re Mi”.
10. Randy Newman breaks hearts as he describes broken windows, empty hallways, and the general signs of an economic downturn in “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today”.

What do you think? … Please add your own top songs to this list!

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